JOEL ADEJOLA.

I am a researcher and artist. My work explores how civilization comes to know things and how to instill epistemic rigor in non-human world-actors. Both of these broadly fall under applied-epistemology, which I study at the University of Kansas. I founded Inganci (solving sport towards physical intelligence) and The Pingback (instruments to augment human intelligence). Previously, I worked on Gallium Nitride motor-driver technology at Texas Instruments, and was an investigative journalist covering sports and elections.

LivedAbuja, Nigeriahome · Johannesburg, South Africa · Casablanca, Morocco
BeforeApplications engineering intern at Texas Instruments · GaN motor-driver technology · Investigations at The International Center for Investigative Reporting · sports & elections
BuildingINGANCI solving sport towards physical intelligence · The Pingback instruments for augmenting human intelligence
PublicationsThe ICIR — investigation into ₦2bn in fire-fighting equipment abandoned at Abuja Stadium (co-authored)
Independent — investigation into the disenfranchisement of over a million teenage voters in the 2023 Nigerian General Elections
The ICIR — Eulogy: “At last, Messi immortalises his football fairytale”
PolicyKU Student Senate — authored a resolution finding KU Housing misapplied FLSA dual-employment law
StudiesPhilosophy of Science · Epistemology · Metalogic · Knowledge Representation & Reasoning

Selected writing recent & moving

How I Stopped Producing Good Mathematics

On cheap motivation, and the kind that scales.

2024Memoir · Caped Corners
Epistemic Injustice

Fricker, the Senate Judiciary Committee, and Anita Hill.

2024Academic · PHIL 381
A Catharsis: Interrogating the African Leadership Academy

The transcript that cost me Brown — and the institution that would not answer.

2023Memoir/Investigation · Caped Corners
How Do We Talk About Work?

Why I keep intercepting my own work before anyone sees it.

2024Memoir
All writings